Altova Mailing List Archives>Archive Index >comp.text.xml Archive Home >Recent entries >Thread Prev - Re: XML declaration in DTD System ID? ... >Thread Next - Re: XML declaration in DTD System ID? ... Re: XML declaration in DTD System ID? ...To: NULL Date: 7/8/2009 12:46:00 AM Martin, > http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#sec-TextDecl says > "External parsed entities SHOULD each begin with a text declaration." > so it says "should" and it says "text declaration", not "XML > declaration". That way it is possible to not have a text declaration as > long as the encoding is UTF-8 or UTF-16 and the version is 1.0 I think. Thanks for that very helpful info ... :-) If, however, the entity *didn't* begin with an XML declaration, how would a processor figure out whether the encoding was UTF-8 or UTF-16? Some type of heuristic algorithm? Russell | ||||||
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